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Polish Modern Culture Agnieszka Słomian, Tomasz Mazurek Imprint Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture Agnieszka Słomian, Tomasz Mazurek Imprint Get to know about Poland – Training Materials for Trainers and Teachers Authors: Danuta Gałyga, Tomasz Mazurek, Marzena Ples, Agnieszka Słomian, Marcin Zybała Content-related coordination of the project: Agnieszka Słomian Content-related editing of the publication: Agnieszka Słomian, Marcin Zybała Linguistic editing of the publication: Steve Jones Composition/graphics: DoLasu | art studio, www.dolasu-pracownia.pl ISBN: 978-83-938388-2-0 Published by: © Institute for Eastern Initiatives (Instytut Wschodnich Inicjatyw) ul. Salwatorska 5/10, 30-109 Kraków www.iwi.org.pl | www.aboutpoland.iwi.org.pl Kraków 2015 The workshop scenario is part of the publication Get to know about Poland – Training Materials for Trainers and Teachers which was created during the project coordinated by the Institute for Eastern Initiatives. The project is co-financed by the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the “Cooperation in the Field of Public Diplomacy 2015” competition. The publication expresses the views of the authors only and cannot be identified with the official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Get to know about Poland – Training Materials for Trainers and Teachers is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland. Some rights are reserved for Danuta Gałyga, Tomasz Mazurek, Marzena Ples, Agnieszka Słomian, Marcin Zybała and the Institute for Eastern Initiatives. The work was created as part of the “Cooperation in the Field of Public Diplomacy 2015” competition. Permission is granted to all use of the work, provided the aforementioned information is upheld, including the information concerning the applicable license, the rights reserved and the “Cooperation in the Field of Public Diplomacy 2015” competition. Cover photo: Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow/ Mariusz Cieszewski / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland / Source: Flicr.com 2 Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture 1. Workshop scenario AIMS • To acquaint the participants with elements of Polish contemporary culture: film, music, literature, theatre, painting, and festivals. • To discuss the role of museums in creating and presenting culture. • To develop skills of creative thinking and spatial planning. Duration: 180 minutes. PARTICIpaNTS: 20 people. teaching methoDs • Demonstration methods – film. • Practical methods – productive exercises. • Expository methods – talk. • Expository methods – presentation. teaching materials, aiDs and work • Computer and projector to display video. • Stationery to prepare a museum room: large flipchart sheets, slips of paper of different colours and sizes, coloured blotting paper, glue, scissors, markers, paints, cardboard, string, etc. • For each group: an instruction on how to complete the task, educational materials, printed photos and graphics. • 6 separate rooms equipped with tables and chairs, where thematic museum rooms will be designed (if there is no such possibility, 6 areas may be separated with a string in one workshop room). • Additionally, a printer and Internet connection as well as a computer to search for information – the participants may use their own equipment (mobile phones, tablets, or computers) during the workshop. 3 Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture 1. Workshop scenario Plan of the workshop 1. IntroDuction The participants are asked to define culture, identify and then characterise the different types (e.g. high, national, audiovisual), after which they are asked what contemporary culture means to them. How the role of museums has changed over the centuries should be discussed (e.g. formerly it was a place for protecting and displaying works of art, whereas today it is a place of history and culture). The participants may be asked to point to the largest and most state-of-the-art museums in the world. Afterwards, they are acquainted with selected Polish museum websites (from the section The Proposed Literature and Films). Large pieces of papers with the following words in the middle: film, music, literature, theatre, painting, festivals should be hung in various places around the room. The participants are asked to add or draw all associations and information concerning these categories that come to their minds. A discussion should be initiated and afterwards the film Get to know about Poland: Modern Culture (Auxiliary material no. 1) should be presented. 2. ExPlaining and conDucting an exercise The task of the participants will be to design a state-of-the-art museum in Europe, where 6 rooms will be devoted to contemporary Polish culture according to the 6 thematic categories (Auxiliary material no. 2). The participants work in groups – each group will be responsible for one room, and its task will be to organise the space in such a way that it would be interesting for different age groups, to create an original and unusual museum installation, to place props and their descriptions, to come up with an advertising slogan for a given room and how to promote it in the media. The participants receive instructions on how to complete the task (Auxiliary material no. 3), texts, pictures and multimedia (Educational materials no. 1–6), chairs, tables, strings, cardboard, paper, crayons, markers, paints, etc. at their disposal (all depending on the conditions and the creativity of the leader). They have 60 minutes to complete the task. After completing the task, the museum will be officially opened and the tourists who seek more information about Polish culture will be guided around. Each group will have 10 minutes to present its thematic room and the strategies for its promotion. During the presentation, Internet resources (e.g. fragments of films, music videos, documentaries, graphics, and music) may be used by the groups. 4 Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture 1. Workshop scenario 3. Summary and discussion The participants are asked how they liked working in their groups under time pressure, having the opportunity to create their own vision of the museum room, what made their task easier and what obstacles they encountered. The last 15-20 minutes of the workshop should be devoted to supplementing the participants’ knowledge about contemporary culture, for example by showing web portals, presenting music that they like, or fragments of music videos. 4. The time frame of the workshoP Introduction to the topic and the presentation of films: 35 minutes. Conducting the exercise: 120 minutes, including: • Time for creating the museum room: 60 minutes. • Time for presenting the museum rooms: 60 minutes. Discussing the exercise and summarising the workshop: 25 minutes. 5 Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture 2. Auxiliary materials Auxiliary material no. 1 educational film The film is available on You Tube at: • Get to know about Poland: Modern Culture (EN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivKCwM1a-0 (RU): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61GWdjgzgQ Auxiliary material no. 2 thematic categories 1) Film 4) Theatre 2) Music 5) Painting 3) Literature 6) Festivals Auxiliary material no. 3 instruction on how to complete the task The task of all the participants will be to design the most state-of-the-art museum in Europe, where 6 rooms will be devoted to contemporary Polish culture according to the following thematic categories: film, music, literature, theatre, visual arts, others. Each group will be responsible for one room – they should consider how to organise the space so that it will be interesting for different age groups (e.g. teenagers, adults and seniors), what information should be contained therein and how it should be presented. Then the project should be carried out. Original, unusual and multimedia museum installations should be developed, using different furniture (e.g. tables and chairs), objects (e.g. cardboard boxes, mobile phones and tablets) and stationery (e.g. string, pieces of paper, blotting paper). Props should also be created along with their descriptions – the educational materials, printed photos, posters and graphics which were prepared for each group may be used. They may also refer to Internet resources (e.g. portals dedicated to Polish culture, social media) and computer equipment may be used. Additionally, the room should be named and the advertising slogan should be devised along with some idea of how to promote it in the media. Be creative! The task should be completed within 60 minutes. Afterwards, the museum will be officially opened and the tourists who are thirsty for knowledge about Polish culture will be guided around the rooms. Each group will have 10 minutes to present their thematic room, so it should be decided how the results of the participants’ work will be presented and the speakers should be chosen from among each group. 6 Chapter VIII Polish Modern Culture 3. Educational materials Educational material no. 1 film The film Pruska Kultura from 1908 is considered to be the first Polish feature film. The Polish film industry expanded after Poland had regained independence and unified the three partitioned areas in 1918. In Poland of the 1920s and 1930s the themes popular with filmmakers were mainly patriotism and love, although comedy productions also appeared at that time. After the war, the film industry was rebuilt, but rigid rules of social-realism were imposed on the film industry. A turning point in postwar Polish cinema was the emergence of the so-called Polish Film School that helped to come to terms artistically with the painful problems of the Second World War. In the Polish cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, numerous film adaptations of literary works were immensely popular. Opposition to the restrictions imposed by the authorities led to the creation of a separate artistic trend, which has been called the Cinema of Moral Anxiety. In the 1980s, Polish cinematography turned towards commercial cinema. After the collapse of the communist system in Poland and after the political transformation, there was a crisis in the film industry, with Polish cinematography gradually adapting to the capitalist reality.
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